Obs. Also 4–5 borde, 5 bordyn, boordon, -de, bouerd, 4–6 bourde. [f. F. border, bourder, contr. from behorder to fence, tilt, f. behord, behort tilting lance, tilting, tourney; see Diez. Probably confounded with prec.]
intr. To joust, tilt; to engage in a sham fight.
c. 1450. Merlin, vi. 100. And after mete … yede the barouns and the knyghtes to boorde in a feire pleyn. Ibid., ix. 133. After mete was the quyntayne reysed, and ther at bourded the yonge bachelers.
